Bill - I followed your posts thoroughly, and I place myself in queue at the apple-throwing.
No one, ever will ever convince me that censorship is necessary, nor that it is a cure for most evils of our society. If these are true, that only shows you what a pathetic society we have become.
I don't suppose any of you saw that creepily funny episode from 'Millennium' called "Somehow Satan got behind me', written by the awesome Darin Morgan. It details the life of a dedicated censor, and how, in the end 'with the burden of a nation's morality on his very shoulders' finally crumbles, falling into the second evil stated in CS Lewis's Screwtape letters:
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The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
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